book clubs Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/tag/book-clubs/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Fri, 04 Apr 2014 04:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Bad Buys: McSweeney’s Book Release Club https://www.theshareduniverse.com/bad-buys-mcsweeneys-book-release-club/ Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:29:25 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=368 On occasion we must gather to censure rather than celebrate those publishers who provide us book addicts with our fixes. I come to bury McSweeney’s Book Release Club, not to praise it. The indie darling of web and print has given me so much joy over the years (Adam Levin’s The Instructions! Lucky Peach magazine […]

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]]> Good Buys: Powell’s Books’ Indiespensable book club https://www.theshareduniverse.com/good-buys-powells-books-indiespensable-book-club/ Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:34:31 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=374 Book clubs are a good risk. The greatest risk of receiving regular books in the mail is that you won’t care for the book. As I love a shelf of handsome volumes, it’s a risk I happily accept. The risks are low with Powell’s extraordinary Indiespensable book club, Every six weeks Powell’s sends a curated […]

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